Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / Stefano Castelvecchi.

Author: Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Descriptionxix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Note:Preface; A prologue on genre; 1. Pamela goes to the opera; 2. The emergence of bourgeois drama; 3. The codification of bourgeois drama; 4. Opera as drame; 5. Sensibility and the moral cure; 6. A sentimental opera; 7. Sentimental, anti-sentimental; 8. Avenues; Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784).

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-268) and index.

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